Die Weber
1899German dramaGerman language booksCriticism and interpretationDeutschunterrichtWeber (Hauptmann, Gerhart)
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The Weavers (German: Die Weber, Silesian German: De Waber) is a play in five acts written by the German playwright Gerhart Hauptmann in 1892. The play, probably Hauptmann's most important drama, sympathetically portrays a group of Silesian weavers who staged an uprising in 1844 due to their concerns about the Industrial Revolution. The play was translated into Yiddish by Pinchas Goldhar in the 1920s, after which it became a favorite of the Yiddish stage. In 1927 it was adapted into a German silent film The Weavers directed by Frederic Zelnik and starring Paul Wegener. A Broadway version of The Weavers was staged in 1915–1916.[1]
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German dramaGerman language booksCriticism and interpretationDeutschunterrichtWeber (Hauptmann, Gerhart)Weber
First published 1899About the author
Gerhart Hauptmann
15 November 1862 – 6 June 1946
German dramatist and novelist who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912.
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